Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Juevos

It's no secret I have some odd eating habits, but odder still are the people who "discover" some new food item. Perhaps these people were simply hungry and willing to try anything.

Take eggs for example. I can't imagine what was going through the dudes head that ate the first one, but I bet the conversation went something like this.

"Hey Frank! See that thing that just fell out of your chicken's arse. What do you think the goo inside that would taste like?""Beats the hell outta me Joe.""Well, I think I'll break one of them open and find out."

And while I know enough about animals to understand the benefits a rancher gains by castrating his cattle I will never understand the working behind the cowboy who first thought ... Man that bucket full of severed balls sure looks tasty.

Oysters? Come on no one in their sober mind would say that snot-like gel inside that shell has to be good to eat. After all they they filter fish crap from the bottom of the sea. How could they not be scrum-dili-umptious?

Speaking of sober, think about the dude who discovered booze. He had to be thirsty when he said, "Look those grapes have rotted and turned into mush. Let's slurp some up." Of course after he did it's no wonder he decided to start letting corn, hops and barley ferment as well.

Nope, this post doesn't have a real point. Carry on with your day, but before you go drop me a comment and point out some food item that makes you scratch your head.

For the record, I'm fine with eating deep fried calf testicles and washing them down with a beer or other adult beverage but you can keep the ocean filters and chicken droppings for yourself.

Ha, I never thought about eggs that way. I know most things are eaten out of necessity and availability, but tripe is something I just cannot understand. WHY would you eat the gunk from inside an animal's intestines? Why?

WEll, bugs of any kind -- I'd have to be starving before I'd put one in my mouth. The one thing I can't stand to eat is catfish. It lives at the bottom of lakes, eating the sludge on the bottom, eats blood bate off hooks...you are what you eat, ya know? Yuck!!!

years ago, my brother-in-law had a job that required his traveling to factories around the country. He used to go to a factory in the south and became friendly with some of the guys there. One guy invited him to dinner, promising they would have them some rooster dainties. they are just what you think they are...

I will NOT eat any filter of any kind, but I can actually think of something worse - "chitlins" - or chitterlings. Made from the intestines of pigs, I assumed they were fried. My mom says anything, even shoe leather, would be good fried, though I've not tried it and it doesn't speak well for my mom's cooking. However, I recently saw an old woman who said she was going to cook up a pot of chitlins for her visiting relatives. Fried, I asked? No, borrled. (boiled). Imagine, a big pot of limp, boiled pig intestines. Yummy.

I suppose that yucky foods are a result of culture, what was available to that culture and a result of being either too poor or too rich (hummingbird tongues). And I also suppose that in this time, we are exposed to much less yucky foods than in times past.